cosmotron

American  

[kos-muh-tron] / ˈkɒs məˌtrɒn /

noun

Physics.

1. a proton accelerator.

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Cosmotron British  

/ ˈkɒzməˌtrɒn /

noun

1. a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)

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Etymology

Origin of cosmotron

First recorded in 1945–50; cosmo- + -tron

Example Sentences

With a few outstanding exceptions, like “Tick-Tock Jelly Clock Cosmotron,” which features a colorful game board and its own scratching, wheezing audio accompaniment, the assemblages tend to look dated, like exuberantly nihilistic juvenilia, although I suppose they are credible antecedents of goth.

From New York Times

At the Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he did research, he became friendly with Dr. Cronin during long nights playing bridge while waiting for the lab’s particle accelerator, the Cosmotron, to get running.

From New York Times

This chamber is now in use with the Cosmotron at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

From Scientific American

His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices to its credit, including shopping centers, railroad stations, factories, hospitals, churches, and the cosmotron building at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

From Time Magazine Archive

Columbia's Professor I. I. Rabi, a Nobel prizewinning physicist who is in favor of the moon program, points out that Congress recently made a sharp cut in appropriations for a new nuclear accelerator and for the cosmotron at Brookhaven, But it refused to slice into space allocations.

From Time Magazine Archive